Minutemen Bash Founder Over Huckabee Endorsement

Jim Gilchrist likes Mike Huckabee, but the organization he founded sent a "special message" to members blasting Huckabee. The headline: "Real Minutemen Do Not Endorse Huckabee."

Here's the full text:

No National Minuteman Group has endorsed Mike Huckabee.

One individual Minuteman has personally endorsed him.

For the sake of clarity, it is important to note that the MinutemanCivil Defense Corps (MCDC), the nation's largest Minuteman organization,is a 501(C)4 non-profit organization and cannot and does not endorse anycandidate for public office. MCDC is not associated with Mr. JimGilchrist, who today endorsed Mike Huckabee for president.

Jim Gilchrist’s erstwhile Minuteman Project is itself an organizationwhich by its own representations as a non-profit civic group cannotlegally endorse candidates. It does not have any volunteers who observeillegal border activity. It has no border fence building projects. JimGilchrist here speaks only for Jim Gilchrist, he does not speak for theMinuteman Civil Defense Corps, nor is he nationally representative ofmost patriots in the "Minuteman movement" – who under no circumstancescould ignore the failed record nor endorse the duplicitous “plan”recently rolled out by candidate Mike Huckabee. The national media needsto recognize that Jim Gilchrist’s endorsement is his own personalstatement, nothing more.

The Minuteman Civil Defense Corps emphasizes policy dealing withnational border security. The only "plan" to ensure border security thatis acceptable to our constituency would be a candidate policy statementdeclaring that his first act as President will be to hold a pressconference and announce to the American people an executive order toimmediately deploy and fund 30,000 National Guard personnel to the U.S.Borders (25,000 to the southern border and 5,000 to the northern border)to complement a massive increase in U.S. Border Patrol Agent fieldpersonnel, and a bilateral effort to secure our frontiers, smash thedrug cartels, shut down the human smugglers and protect the publicsafety of the citizens who reside along the borders on both sides of ournational boundaries.

Unlike this last-minute opportunism attempted by Huckabee, many of theother GOP presidential candidates have actually helped push the issue ofnational border security forward for some time. Tom Tancredo’s manyyears of hard work on the border crisis and illegal immigration issueshave all the candidates striving to sound like him. Duncan Hunter cantake personal credit for getting the highly effective San Diego borderfence built. Ron Paul has been to the border with us first hand andaggressively pushed positive border legislation. Alan Keyes has donemore than anyone to support the organizational development of MCDC, andpersonally participated in the Minuteman Border Fence Groundbreaking –advancing a citizen’s construction effort which has forced Congress tofinally get the Feds building physical border fence.

Only one Minuteman group is conducting regular multi-state bordersecurity efforts, building fence and aggressively monitoring WashingtonDC: Minuteman Civil Defense Corps. We would like to extend an invitationto all the presidential candidates, Republican and Democrat, to come tothe border and see what is really happening on our nation’s frontier.Not to take the safe little government photo-op helicopter ride, but seethe lay-up sites full of trash and debris. See the rape trees. See theviolent crime in the border towns. Walk on the pathways of destroyedenvironmental terrain trampled by tens of thousands of invading foreignmigrants. See what the American elites’ support of broken borders,unfettered illegal immigration and sanctuary cities is doing to ourfellow Americans who live on our borderlands, and how these failedpolicies imperil our nation’s safety, security and prosperity.

With your support MCDC continues to make Border Security and IllegalImmigration a national priority that must be resolved. Now more thanever we need your help to continue the fight.

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